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Wow, thats funny. Spoken to the Hoover no less ?

This car we are discussing was an East coast delivery / import. Baltimore That might mean that a boatload came through the Panama Canal. Or. It might have been railroaded across the country. 26th was built in November and delivered to Florida the following April. Anyhow...I Hoovered a lunchbag of pictures for my records. This car is pretty correct. I want to see if it has an early hood. I think the hood bumpers are wrong but so what. It has seat guards and the seat belt hooks on the seats. The short ones. Notice the screws holding the bottom of the door cards. However skeptical I am about the condition of the car, I have seen cars like this. Jim Frederick used to have a couple. Even the seatbelt bags. I hope it goes to a good home and we see it at the convention.

I love you Chris! ? I did the same lol Early Z's.... pics sorted by VIN and other interesting ones for restoration references...27th pictures are there too! Hoover Bag: 71Gig ~ 61,000 files

Cleaning up some of the small items here while I wait for the body from the paint shop. Did a clean-up on the horns. I think the olive color is a bit too light, but it's the closest that I could find locally.

Well yeah, i have yet another two new books to add to my ever evolving list of Z-related books i have to read and translate when i find some time. 1) Fairlady Z Story and history, Vol. 1 - The 50th Anniversary Chronicles. A book about the history of the Z including the development It contains some backgroundinformation. for example about road testing in America: And some of the racing cars. I've just been flicking through it yet, but it seems it seems to focus on the car globally with pictures showing old woking station, american race cars but also the japanese. so this might be an interessteing one ? 2) Japanese masterpiece series [Vol.12] - Nissan Fairlady This book is actually a bit older (released in August 1973). The cool thing is, it contains some backgronud information but also a lot of nice drawings and technical information about the different version. as shown below. Still have to read it as well, but they seem to be (aside from the factory books) some of the more promising and serious books i bought. But i still have to prove my initial feelings about them ?

It's quite easy to make your own low-tension replacement spring. Start with a 12" length of regular (non-tempered) steel wire (stainless preferred), about 1/32" diameter. For a forming device, clamp an old 3/32" drill bit in your bench vise. It should be clamped vertical, with the shank (smooth end) exposed and the cutting end clamped. Now take the length of wire and wrap it ~ 1-3/4 times around the drill bit, so that the two legs form a 90-degree angle when the coiled part of the wire relaxes (it may take you two or three tries before you get the finished angle right). Once you're happy with your result, trim the two legs to the correct length. Remember to form the 90-degree bend on one of the legs before you cut away the excess wire. The lack of temper in the wire won't affect the action of the spring. There's not enough flexure created in the coil or legs to take the wire past its elastic limit. I made my own replacement spring this way several years ago and it still works fine.

I have a bunch of those. Send me a PM and we’ll exchange info.

Mid America Raceway in the rain...

Agree, and I'd rather an OEM factory car over the MZR offering myself.

MZR cars are custom built. You can't compare a MZR car to a 432 or 432R

Hi Gavin , We are seeing a lot of R32 GTR are shipped to overseas everyday. On the other hand I have met some owners who wanted to sell their cars but not for overseas buyers , I can sympathize with what they are feeling. BTW , could the winning bidder be an overseas buyer because it was made by phone . Interesting! Kats

Dennis you're absolutely right. In the past year I've had 3 very long term customers give up their Zs due to their ages. Two of them are original owners. I find this situation very sad indeed. Perhaps my sadness is reflected in my own situation. Although I get around just fine at almost 70 and still put a few hundred miles on my 280 every year I recognize that the end is closer than the beginning.

This just arrived in the mail.... no guilty party in the shipping documents. It came from Amazon. BIG THANKS to SANTA!

"As valid" as what? Any replica/tribute/'phantom' project is fine by me. But you are - once again - missing the wider point. The Real Thing always demands a premium. Does somebody buy one of these cars when they actually would have settled for something completely different? Are there people out there who can easily afford a Michaelangelo - and actually want one - but who say 'Nah! I'll get a dot matrix printed copy instead'..? Where were your pithy comments about the so-called "Franklin Mint" car? I would have thought that if you need any of this explaining to you it's too late. It's already gone over your head.

Maybe you can start a little side business to tell art galleries that they don't need to buy those Rothkos, and that you'll knock them up something similar at a fraction of the price...?

And Gallery Link is broken again. New link to member profile here: http://www.classiczcars.com/profile/8135-take432r/ and gallery link (Which is working for now).

Hi, For some of you may be interested in this, race & rally manual "45nen 2 gatsu" (Feb 1970) introducing and points of tuning of PS30-SB. This book is 80 pages , very interesting to look at.Lots of technical description and data. Here are some scans (bad quality by my i-phone), general view and comparison between PS30 and PS30-SB. All in Japanese, I am thinking of translating whole book....when will it be done??? kats PS: The fuel reservor tank for early US 240Z (plastic tank) could be the same as a tank for race option. The part number is different, but I guess it must be the same...